...a soft, gentle, deeply kindhearted and deeply queer figure.

And he sits in my internal Rogues Gallery, surrounded by tricksters, fiends, villains of every mold (and of course one disproportionately-retributive deity but we knew that).

Just something I've been chewing on. (5/5)

...and with caution, whose relationship with authority is not one of naked defiance or furious questioning (though he loves and fears it in Crowley), but something perhaps weaker, perhaps quieter.

Aziraphale: Angel of the Eastern Gate, bookseller (though 'seller' is really pushing credulity) (4/5)

Aziraphale, who loves the world and all its pleasures. Who eats well, widely, and adventurously, who buys his clothes when he could manifest them because he admires the effort it takes to MAKE something. Who frets and worries constantly about 'doing the right thing'. Who goes slowly...(3/?)

fictional characters I find myself cleaving to, my choice in Good Omens is something of an anomaly.

If you've seen my sense of style or general aesthetic sensibilities, you'd think it would be Crowley.

But it's not Crowley.

It's Aziraphale. Fussy, good-natured, bad-at-magic Aziraphale.

I mean...I hear there's a translation kicking around that could accommodate that...